Youth And Youths Are Now Officially Banned,

from where I hear you ask, from the English language, the present government who it would appear has far to much time on it's hands have declared that the term 'youth' has got to be dropped from all official papers, officials at Jack Straw's Ministry of Justice and Ed Balls's Department of Children, Schools and Families said: 'a number of responses suggested the term "youth" had negative connotations and should be replaced by "young persons".' as I said some people who should know better have far to much time on their hands, in my opion the move to ban the term 'youth' is a total and utter complete load of -------- (fill your own word in), is this all that ministers can think about? and we are paying them for these pearls of wisdom! the comment from Shadow Justice Secretary Dominic Grieve sums it all up, 'Yet again, ministers have shown that they are more bothered about pandering to political correctness than coming down hard on the crime and antisocial behaviour that blights communities.' did I mention that another matter that has been given great thought, in Labour's years in power was its Youth Justice Board's decision to prevent the word 'gang', in case it criminalises youngsters who gather together, it prefers crime committed by such gatherings to be described as 'group-related', similarly, Scotland Yard refers to 'group rape' or 'multi-perpetrator rape' to avoid 'emotive' language, words fail me.